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    Community video for social change: a toolkit

    American Refugee Committee International, 2012
    Are you seeking in-depth information on participatory communication and community-based social change? This is comprehensive toolkit for planning and implementing participatory video activities in conflict-affected settings – focusing on gender-based violence prevention and response, harmful practices, as well as HIV/AIDS and related health issues.
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    Masculinity and Civil Wars in Africa – New Approaches to Overcoming Sexual Violence in War

    Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit GmbH, 2009
    An analysis of the different roles that men and women can play as a conflict unfolds offers new perspectives to help understand wars and restore peace in post-war societies. Sustainable peace building requires, among other things, addressing the behaviour and thinking of violent actors and preventing re-establishment of the old discordant social order.
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    Cash Transfers and Gender Relations: Evidence from a Pilot Project in Lesotho (draft)

    BRIDGE, 2008
    What impact do cash-transfers have on gender relations? There are two main ways in which cash transfer projects are seen as having potentially negative impacts on gender relations within recipient households. First, it is supposed that women are less likely to be able to command control over the use of cash within the household compared to certain types of in-kind assistance, namely food.
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    HIV/AIDS as a Human Security Issue: a Gender Perspective

    2000
    The United Nations Security Council recently adopted resolution 1308 which specifically links the spread of AIDS to the maintenance of global peace and security. AIDS is a human security issue because it destabilises society by threatening socioeconomic development, and even threatens human survival in areas such as Botswana where 35% of the adult population is HIV positive.
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    Security and Gender-Based Violence - What is the Significance for Development Interventions?

    Institute of Development Studies UK, 2004
    What is the relationship between gender and security? Security means more than 'national security' and can include personal safety and freedom from violence at any time or in any context.
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    Taking gender equality seriously: making progress, meeting new challenges

    United Nations Development Programme, 2006
    UNDP and its partners have had mixed success with gender mainstreaming. For UNDP, as for others, mainstreaming has too often meant that everyone - and thus no one in particular - has responsibility for promoting women's empowerment. Nonetheless, there are many success stories throughout the organisation where mainstreaming has yielded positive results.
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    Getting it right, doing it right: gender and disarmament, demobilization and reintegration

    United Nations Development Fund for Women, 2004
    How can international assistance operations address the specific needs of women and girls in a practical way when planning in post-conflict situations? Disarmament, demobilisation and reintegration (DDR) interventions often focus primarily on goals of disarming men rather than acknowledging there are women combatants or women supporters of armed groups.
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    Gender and Migration: Supporting Resources Collection

    Institute of Development Studies UK, 2005
    This collection is made up of summaries of overviews, case studies, tools and guidelines and other materials relating to gender and migration. Details of how to obtain copies or download the full texts are provided with each summary.
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    Preventing and coping with HIV/AIDS in post conflict situations: gender-based lessons

    Linking Complex Emergency Response and Transition Initiative, 2000
    The number and nature of violent conflicts in Africa, coupled with the HIV/AIDS pandemic, are negating many of the development gains achieved in Africa over the last 50 years. This briefing note summarises the rationale behind a symposium held in Pretoria, South Africa, on March 27-29 2001 on 'Preventing and coping with HIV/AIDS in post conflict situations: gender-based lessons'.
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    Our Common Interest, Report of the Commission for Africa

    Commission for Africa, 2005
    This year promises to be a decisive one for Africa. In 2005, the United Nations (UN) will conduct a five-year review of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) which aim to halve world poverty (most of which is in Africa) by 2015.

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